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...shadowy man known as "Jezda the Boss" was holed up in Israel, condemning Serbian aggression in the Balkan war and hatching plans to preside over a government-in-exile. Such grandiose schemes come naturally to Vasiljevic, 45, the maverick entrepreneur who sponsored last year's Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match in Yugoslavia and has variously been suspected of everything from gun- running to illegal currency trading...
...JUST A WHILE, THE SIGNS WERE HOPEFUL. THE parties in Waco's six-week standoff seemed to look beyond, toward the multiboard legal chess match bound to follow a peaceful resolution. The Texas Rangers, for instance, were reportedly miffed that fbi negotiators had unintentionally caused the Branch Davidians to sanitize possible court evidence -- scrubbing away blood, sweeping up spent cartridges and reducing automatic guns back to semiautomatics. The FBI denied the report. The Davidians,too, employed a kind of spin control that implied something will remain intact to spin. David Koresh's attorneys talked about contesting some government assertions...
Investigators are also excited by the possibility that some of the HIV survivors' immune systems are cannier than a chess master. They apparently do not allow their opponent much freedom of movement and prevent the virus from mutating very often. This makes the infection easier to control because the body does not have to recognize and subdue new variations every few months. If researchers could figure out how a survivor can keep such tight control of the chessboard, then perhaps they can find a way to give other patients the same ability. Clinicians might even be able to boost...
...complex game of social chess played by chimps and other primates, having the intellectual skills to anticipate a rival's moves and engage in deceit is a distinct advantage. Consider the double deception observed at a feeding station in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Reserve. A wild chimp had the luck to be alone next to a feeding box when it was opened by remote control. Noticing that another, more dominant chimp was approaching, the first one closed the box and moved nonchalantly away until the second chimp moved on. Once the interloper was gone, the first chimp opened...
...Marines passing by on the bed of a truck. "Those are the real grunts," he says. "When it rains, it's awful, and they can't take stuff like this with them." Sotak opens a St. Louis Cardinals bag holding his only sources of entertainment: a box with a chess set and a small electronic football simulation game...